Labrador: Wait Until Next Year for Reform
From the Associated Press:
Making the case for a delay, Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, said there’s “overwhelming support for doing nothing this year.” Labrador, who worked with a small group of Republicans and Democrats on comprehensive legislation last year then abandoned the negotiations, said it would be a mistake to have an internal battle in the GOP. He argued for waiting until next year when the Republicans might have control of the Senate.
Some Republican supporters of a new immigration law are pushing back.
“I’m trying to convince my colleagues that regardless of primaries, regardless of elections this November, that we have an obligation and a duty to solve this crisis once and for all,” Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., told the Spanish-language television network Telemundo in an interview scheduled to air Sunday. Read more….
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